19 Jul
2020
19 Jul
'20
18:14
On 19/07/2020 19.56, David T-G wrote:
Rodney, et al --
...and then Rodney Baker said... % % On Thursday, 16 July 2020 19:27:12 ACST Carlos E. R. wrote: % > On 16/07/2020 11.47, cagsm wrote: % > > simply delete everything but the/home/ partition and start with a ... % > % > That is trivial to do :-D % % Assuming, of course, that one had the foresight to create /home as a separate % partition...
... or can boot from a thumb drive and
/bin/rm [A-Z0-9a-gj-z]* .??*
in the mounted dir ... :-)
Yes, but that breaks a feature of the install software: it reads some files from the previous system, like fstab or /etc/passwd. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)